Professor Emeritus Rüdiger Pethig CURRICULUM VITAE 1969: MA in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), University of Münster 1973: Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Mannheim 1977: Venia legendi in Economics (Privatdozent für Volkswirtschaftslehre), University of Mannheim 1969 – 1977: Teaching and research assistant, University of Mannheim. Leaves during 1975 – 1976 and 1978 – 1979. 1978 – 1979: Visiting Professor, University of Dortmund, winter semester 1978/79 1979 – 1988: Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Oldenburg 1988 – 2009: Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Siegen since 2009: Emeritus, University of Siegen Homepage: www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/pethig/ RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Research Areas and Interests - Environmental and Resource Economics: ecological tax reform; waste management and re- cycling; economic theory of water resources; theoretical analysis of pollution: valuation, risk and uncertainty; problems related to the implementation of environmental policies; interna- tional and global environmental issues; overlapping regulation in climate policy; theoretical foundations of unilateral climate policy. - Theory of Public Goods: price-excludable public goods; information goods; common prop- erty resources; special interest groups; public goods and optimal taxation; merit goods. - Media Economics: allocative efficiency in the media industry; theory of the dual television system; regulation of the media industry and new technologies. Grand-supported Research (Drittmittelforschung) - "Theoretical foundations of unilateral climate policy"(joint with Prof. Dr. Th. Eichner, Fern- Universität Hagen); financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (= DFG; German Research Society), 2012-2019. 2 - "Overlapping regulation in the EU climate policy" (joint with Prof. Dr. Ch. Böhringer, Uni- versity of Oldenburg); financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ger- man Research Society), 2008-2011. - "On the integration of ecosystem analysis and research in environmental economics"; finan- cial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society), 2002- 2004. - "Theoretical foundations of product-related environmental policy"; financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society), 1998 – 2001. - "Theoretical analysis of an ecological tax reform"; financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation, 1995 – 1996. - "The Baltic drainage basis project"; financial support from the Commission of the European Union, 1993 – 1995. - "Television and new media in Europe in the nineties"; project in the special research program "Esthetics, Pragmatics and History of Audio-visual Media", financial support from the DFG, University of Siegen 1992 – 1997. - "Evaluation, risk and uncertainty", task force of the research program "Environment, Science and Society: An Economic and Institutional Analysis"; financial support from the European Science Foundation, 1990 . 1992. - "Market allocation of public goods"; financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsge- meinschaft (German Research Society), 1989. - "Economic theory of water resources"; financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsge- meinschaft (German Research Society), 1987 – 1991. - "Public allocation policy and public goods"; project in the special research program "Public Allocation Policy in Market Economies", financial support from the Deutsche For- schungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society), Universities of Mannheim and Olden- burg, 1979 – 1986. Activities in Scientific Institutions and Associations - European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) - member of the preliminary EAERE Council 1989 – 1992 - founding member 1992 and member thereafter - EAERE President 1994 – 1995; Past President 1996 – 1997 - Honorary member of EAERE - EAERE Fellow - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (German Economic Association) - member since 1972; - founding member of the Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics in the German Economic Association; chairman of the Workshop 1994 – 1996; - member in the Workshop on Public Finance in the German Economic Association. 3 Temporary activities: - Memberships: European Economic Association, International Institute of Public Finance - Journal Environmental and Resource Economics: Member of the editorial advisory board since 1991; member of the managing editorial board 1994 – 1995 - Journal Environment and Development Economics: Member of the advisory board 1995 – 2000 - Journal Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (Perspectives of Economic Policy) of the Ger- man Economic Association: Member of the Herausgeberbeirat until 2019 (editorial board) - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society): Elected reviewer for the field of economic theory 1992 – 1995 - Forschungsinstitut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Research Institute of the Liberal Arts and Social Sciences) at the University of Siegen: Member by cooptation 1989 – 1995; managing director 1990 – 1991 - Europäisches Institut für Regionalforschungen (European Institute for Regional Studies) at the University of Siegen: Member 1992-2000 Organization of Conferences - Annual meeting of the Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics of the Gesell- schaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (German Economic Association), Freuden- berg 1997 - Congress of the German Economic Association, Bern 1997; member of the program com- mittee - Conference on "Fernsehfinanzierung" (Television finance), Frankfurt 1997; (jointly with So- fia Blind) - Annual meetings of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) - co-chairman of the meetings in Umea, Sweden 1995 and in Lisbon, Portugal 1996 - member of the program committee for several other annual EAERE meetings - Conference on "Aspekte grenzüberschreitenden Fernsehens in Europa" (Aspects of trans- frontier television in Europe), Siegen 1995; (jointly with G. Hallenberger, H. Kohl, and Ch. Thomsen) - Conference on "Cooperation and Conflicts in Managing Environmental Resources", Freudenberg 1990 - Conference on "Efficiency, Institutions and Economic Policy", Mannheim 1986; (jointly with U. Schlieper) 4 Visits, Visiting Fellowships and Professorships University of Southhampton, England 2001; University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA 1998; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden 1994; Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain 1993; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands 1992/1993; Austral- ian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 1989; George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 1983; New York University, New York City, N. Y., USA 1980; Northwestern University, Evanston; Illinois, USA 1975. UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION SERVICES (Selection) - University of Siegen: Chairman of the Examination Board and Head of the Examination Office 1989 – 1992; Member of the Senate Committee on Research 1989 – 1991; Member of the Rectorate as Prorektor for planning and finance 1993 – 1997; Chairman of the Senate Committee on Planning and Finance and Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Univer- sity Library 1993 – 1997. - University of Oldenburg: Member of the Senate 1983 – 1985; Member of the Board of the Institute of Economics 1984 – 1988; Member of the Senate Committee on Students' Affairs 1985 – 1987. PUBLICATIONS 85 articles in professional journals: Agricultural Economics; Annals of Operations Research; Canadian Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Ecological Modelling; Environmental and Resource Economics; European Economic Review; European Journal of Political Economy; Finanzarchiv; In- ternational Economic Review; International Tax and Public Finance; Journal of the Asso- ciation of Environmental and Resource Economists; Journal of Bioeconomics; Journal of Business Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Economics; Journal of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Environmen- tal Economics and Management; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Jour- nal of Public Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Journal of Regulatory Eco- nomics; Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences; Natural Resource Modeling; Oxford Economic Papers; Regional Science and Urban Economics; Resource and Energy Eco- nomics; Revista Espanola de Economia; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Social Choice and Welfare; 43 articles in books / conference proceedings; 3 books authored or co-authored; 8 books / conference proceedings edited or co-edited; .